I assume you guys mean the 3 key and not the 2 key. The 2 key when held down gives you the time. Lou ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony" <anthony.gough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 12:27 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: Does book port support undo > I do know the key I pressed and I have read the manual, I accidentally held > down the 2 key for too long. As for the book port constantly keeping track > of where it is I would assume it does that anyway because it can resume from > where it left off. I appreciate the bookport doesn't have huge processing > power but I am sure the position could be stored in say a couple of bytes, > It must have pointers to where it is in a file or how does it function? I > am sorry but I don't agree that it would introduce a huge processing > overhead, I remember the days when people wrote quite complex programs on 8 > bit home computers with small amounts of memory. I was just putting it > forward as an idea as on my plextalk talking book machine I find undo useful > at times. > > Anthony > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 3:28 PM > Subject: [bookport] Re: Does book port support undo > > > >I seriously doubt that this is very practical and it would not be trivial > >to > > implement. It would mean that the Book Port firmware would constantly have > > to be monitoring your position in the document, recording that location > > somewhere, then redoing the whole thing after you complete some defined > > boundary (word, sentence, paragraph, page). The processing overhead would > > be > > very extreme. Undoing a move is nothing at all like undoing a change in > > Microsoft Word or something similar on a desktop computer (which has a > > vastly more powerful microprocessor). Also, in the two years that I've > > owned > > a Book Port, this is the first time I've heard this problem. When you say > > that you held down "a key," that seems to imply that you haven't read the > > manual, since you'd know which key you held down. The 1 key held down for > > one beep takes you to the beginning of the file; the 2 key held down for > > one > > beep takes you to the end of the file. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Anthony" <anthony.gough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 9:59 AM > > Subject: [bookport] Re: Does book port support undo > > > > > > Any chance of adding undo in a future firmware update? While power move > > etc > > are ok it is not like hitting one or two keys and bookport putting you > > back > > where you were. I don't suppose it would be a hugely difficult feature to > > implement and I am sure many users would find it of use. > > > > Anthony > > > > > > > >